Big year for Hardy fans includes Woolf lecture

Why so big for Hardy? The film of Far From the Madding Crowd, which features many scenes filmed in West Dorset, will be released this year. Plus, its the 175th anniversary of the writer’s birth

‘Moments of Vision’: Thomas Hardy and Virginia Woolf, a Birthday Lecture, will take place Saturday, June 6, at 3:30 p.m. at the Dorford Centre, Bridgport Road in Dorset. It will be given by Dr. Marion Dell, co-author of Remembering St. Ives: Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell and author of Virginia Woolf’s Influential Forebears, which will be published in the autumn.